The year is 2011 and the headlines readTen hour siege, a SWAT team... and a TANK: How police dealt with mother who refused to give her child medication. The mother’s name was Maryanne Godboldo and her courage in the face of the militarized arm of the medical-industrial complex should have sparked an immediate revolution in America. But for whatever reason, it didn’t. Nevertheless, Godboldo’s case saw protests, sit-ins, and international media attention paving the way for other parents to find courage in their struggles for justice.

And here we are, six years later, and once unthinkable ideas like mandatory vaccination and regular CPS visits have or are threatening to become enforceable laws. Six years later, and critical masses of Americans are beginning to see why Marianne Godboldo’s actions were perhaps this generation’s medical Rosa Parks moment.

Michigan parental rights attorney Allison Folmar recently sat down with HighWire host Del Bigtree to talk about her fight for justice alongside parents and families. Perhaps the most tragic case of hospital and legal overreach that unfolded in the UK is the story of Charlie Gard. When the UK hospital staff decided they couldn’t treat Charlie’s rare disorder, his parents raised money to try another option abroad that would give him an estimated 10 percent chance of survival. However, despite his parents’ wishes, the hospital wouldn’t release Charlie and the courts ruled in favor of the hospital’s decision to terminate his life. Commenting on Charlie Gard’s story, Folmar stated:

“It is not the government’s decision to superimpose its will upon the parents. The parents have a liberty interest and have a right to exercise that, to bet on hope for their child, that’s all they wanted. And if we think this type of government does not and cannot exist here in America, we have to wake up now.”

On July 28, 2017, Congressman Bill Posey introduced H.R.3615 to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct or support a comprehensive study comparing total health outcomes, including risk of autism, in vaccinated populations in the United States with such outcomes in unvaccinated populations. The need for this bill underscores that the massive vaccine schedule currently recommended by the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is yet to be tested for safety. The bottom line is that our current generation of children is in the final phase of the largest vaccine experiment in human history. Yet, parents who choose not to vaccinate their children according to this schedule are often looked upon by mainstream medicine as standing in the way of their children’s best interest. Given the reality of the currently untested vaccine schedule, with a laundry list of documented dangers, what the mainstream medical community is really saying to parents is: you are standing in the way of our unethical experiment.

For most of American parents, the idea of being subjected to medical bullying and threats from CPS for directing the care of their own kids may sound dystopian and outrageous. Yet, a growing trend within US mainstream healthcare is one of coercing a parent to consent to a procedure or protocol, however harmful it may turn out to be for their child. Let’s say you are a parent who exercises your informed medical choice upon the care your child receives. And let’s say your decision runs in opposition to recommendations of the mainstream medical facility or the doctor’s beliefs, whose care your child is under. Your choice is labeled medical neglect and CPS is called. What happens next? Folmar explains:

“When you walk into court, you expect that you are going to receive some form of justice. But when you’re charged with medical neglect, the system works against you. First of all, you are appointed a lawyer. You are discouraged from having your right to an attorney of your own choosing. The court will tell you, we have an attorney here for you. These lawyers are paid by the same people that pay CPS. They rubber stamp whatever that petition will say from child protective services that will hold that child in that hospital hostage until whenever the medical doctors decide that they have picked and probed on that child enough. Or that they’ve completed their experiment. Or that they’ve made whatever money they want to make off of that child.”

Many innocent parents who are suddenly thrust into a position of having to defend their parental rights and custody over their own children within a court system are put on the defensive. Folmar offers these possible steps and advice for such situations:

“You have to be proactive. You have to be prepared to know that you may have to be the plaintiff in this matter. In my experience, Del, that has worked. I have filed 1983 actions when the parents were going through these matters when they were being threatened and when we serve and file that action, all of the sudden it’s hands off…they [CPS] don’t think that the parents have enough emotional fortitude to be able to deal with what’s going on and be able to handle them [CPS] too.”

What is the solution to egregious overreach by the mainstream medical system, CPS, and the courts? Exposure! California Senate Bill 277 awoke the sleeping giant within the heart of many American families. A growing number of parents, through education and sharing of information in the modern-day public commons of social media, are beginning to recognize that government and a collective-minded healthcare system do not have their children’s best interest in mind. As we move forward toward greater transparency and justice for families, Folmar offers this solution:

“We have to have advocates and a family of individuals to just storm the courts and say, “Judge, you know what, I’m gonna expose you. We see what you’re doing in this case. We’re gonna watch this case. We’re going to write about this case. We’re going to Facebook about this case.” Judges, when they’re on the wrong side of justice, they will not do that when the light is being shined on them.”

For those experiencing injustice from the legal system for exercising their parental rights in medical settings, it is important to not allow the court place a gag order. It’s not harming a child for a parent or family to discuss how they are being [mis]treated and how their rights are being violated.

The American public and those awakened to the greater move to push one-size-fits-all collectivized medicine must first exhaust the official channels of change available. Meanwhile, there exists a parallel critical mass of rapidly growing informed grassroots and civil disobedience soon to burst through the surface with clear aims and historical endurance. Those who form this critical mass know and fully understand that they are on the right side of history to demand their parental rights and dominion over the medical care their children receive. Parents and families who have embarked on this pursuit towards justice are supported by the spirit, examples, and strategies of Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Howard Zinn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Vaclav Havel, and scores of other conscious leaders who have left their legacy for free humanity to rise above any system attempting to subjugate us.